Du Heng was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes and looked at Mrs. Zhao, there was surprise and grievance in his eyes, those pair of watery eyes Mrs. Zhao looked particularly disgusted, and couldn't help but slap Du Heng in the face again: "There are no rules, no one teaches you what it means to lower your eyebrows and be pleasing to the eyes? What are you doing when you look at me?

Du Heng lowered his head when he was beaten, tears poured up, Du Heng, who had grown so big and had not been slapped before, was slapped hard for the first time, but he was beaten inexplicably. Why? Everything the old lady commanded, she was doing seriously, what was wrong? The grievance was so sad that it almost annihilated her.

Old Mrs. Zhao was still angry, stretched out her index finger and pointed at Du Heng and scolded: "Don't think that if you confuse Shi Nan, you can make waves." You're in this home, and you're learning what to do and what not to do. Reasoning, you are also a young lady, why don't you look virtuous at all?"

Du Heng's heart trembled, what should she not do? couldn't help but tears in her eyes, and sobbed in a low voice: "Heng'er is stupid, please show the old lady." ”

Mrs. Zhao was so angry that she didn't know what to say, she had a deep grudge, and she didn't know where to start, starting with Du Heng poking Shi Nan with scissors? Or Du Heng himself going to be suspended? Or going to Shanghai Western-style hospital? Or going to Nanjing with Shi Nan---- either of which was enough for the old lady to be unhappy, but she couldn't say anything on the surface.

The old lady's fingers trembled: "You let me show me? To be a virtuous daughter-in-law, what should I do without my own score? Should I persuade my husband and serve my in-laws well?"

Du Heng suddenly understood from the old lady's sentence of "persuading her husband to be peaceful" that the old lady Zhao was angry that Zhao Shinan took her to Nanjing, and she should refuse? Du Heng finally suddenly bowed his head and was silent.

When Mrs. Zhao realized that she had lost her mouth, she became even more indignant, and pointed to the Buddha hall in the inner room and shouted: "Go inside and think carefully about the Buddha." ”

Du Heng slowly got up and walked to the inner room of the Buddha Hall, the aunt came in to remove all the mats, and Du Heng knelt down on the blue brick ground in front of the Buddha statue. Suddenly, my heart was very cold, it turned out that right and wrong, there was no ruler, only in people's hearts.

After kneeling for less than half an hour, the ground was cold and awkward, Du Heng couldn't hold on, and it didn't help to adjust his posture back and forth. After kneeling for an hour, he was already sweating profusely, and just wanted to put his hands under his knees slowly, when Mrs. Zhao's cold voice came from the door: "In front of the Buddha, you don't even have such a little sincerity?" Du Heng hurriedly took his hand away, and then knelt down in a proper manner.

For three hours, Du Heng's whole body was numb from kneeling, and he was almost about to fall to the ground, and Mrs. Zhao finally let her get up. Mrs. Zhao glanced at her: "Have you figured it out?"

"Figured it out. Du Heng replied with a slight gasp.

"What do you understand?" the old lady sneered.

Du Heng was speechless, she didn't know what she should understand. The old lady looked at her biting her lip and saying nothing, and she was extremely stubborn, so she couldn't help frowning and said, "Forget it, let's go down." ”

Du Heng's leg hurt and he couldn't bend his knees to salute, so he had to lower his head and limp out. Mrs. Zhao patted her chest: "Why did you choose such a twisted one?" ”

Aunt Ci was about to speak, when a mother-in-law from the steward of the East Courtyard came in and replied: "The fourth master of Chengji said that he wanted to receive the monthly money for next month in advance." Her family's Tianxiong is going to Shanghai, thinking about preparing more entanglements. ”

Mrs. Zhao was stunned: "What is he going to do in Shanghai?"

"I said that I was injured last time, I fell ill, I couldn't read and work, and I wanted to go to Shanghai to find an easy job. The mother-in-law replied.

"Easy to say. Mrs. Zhao snorted coldly, Shanghai is a place full of gold? It's just an excuse to go out and see the world, but it's okay, it has nothing to do with herself after all, it's just a few oceans early. He raised his hand to the aunt and said, "You go and talk to the account room, it's right." ”

The aunt and the woman went to the account room, but when they came back, they looked frightened, as if the seven souls were missing three spirits, and they wanted to speak several times and stopped. Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but say, "Say whatever you want, and hide what you do." ”

Aunt Ci drove all the maidens and mothers-in-law serving in the room outside, and whispered to Mrs. Zhao: "I just told that mother-in-law about the young master Tianxiong, and I knew that I dared to love Yangzhou City, so I hid it from us." Young Master Tianxiong was beaten before because he wanted to run away with the young grandmother and was caught by the Du family. ”

The Buddha beads in Mrs. Zhao's hand fell to the ground, dumbfounded, she had suspected Zhao Lingquan before, and now there was a Zhao Tianxiong, and the old lady's chest cramped and fell from the chair: "Anshen Dan, ------ quickly"

Aunt Ci took the Tranquility Pill, and she couldn't help but mutter: "I don't know if the young master knows or not, if he knows, can he still be confused by the young grandmother?"

After taking the medicine, Mrs. Zhao eased up a little, and suddenly looked like she was ten years old, and she picked someone for her son. No, she couldn't tolerate it anymore this time, she was going to tell Shi Nan what kind of woman it was. No wonder I didn't see the round house for a long time, if I lost my innocence for a long time, I would go back. The Zhao family's face has been lost in Yangzhou.

Mrs. Zhao was not in the mood to eat dinner, and kept chanting to the Buddha in the Buddhist hall, until more than eight o'clock, Zhao Shinan came back with a raindrop to greet her.

Old Mrs. Zhao didn't talk nonsense, she turned aside the people around her, and asked directly: "Let me ask you, do you have a round house with Du Heng?"

Zhao Shinan was stunned and a little embarrassed: "Why do you ask this." ”

"I have to ask clearly, is Du Heng innocent?" Old Lady Zhao's eyes were sharp.

Zhao Shinan replied frankly: "Naturally." ”

Old Mrs. Zhao's heart that had been hanging all afternoon finally fell, and she looked at Zhao Shinan with a sigh of relief and said: "Shi Nan, about Heng'er, I want to say a few words to you, this wife was asked by my mother to marry, but now, my mother knows that she has lost her eyes." Those gossips ------"

Old Mrs. Zhao was hesitating how to tell Zhao Shinan about Zhao Lingquan and Zhao Tianxiong's gossip, and Zhao Shinan had already said coldly: "Mother doesn't have to say it, I know this, it's just a rumor in the market, don't take it seriously." ”

Zhao Shinan's words shocked Mrs. Zhao more than hearing about Du Heng's scandal in the afternoon, Shi Nan knew? I knew that I still regarded that woman as a treasure? The old lady's lips opened slightly, and she said in surprise: "Are you sure you know? Those are all rumors?"

"My wife, of course I know. Zhao Shinan replied categorically, and said in words: "In the future, if I hear anyone slandering her behind her back, no matter who it is, I will not spare it." The coldness in Zhao Shinan's eyes made Mrs. Zhao's heart cold, and it was not good to say anything.

Zhao Shinan said softly to the old lady: "Mother has always loved Heng'er, and she shouldn't listen to those rumors, this is my face, and it is also the face of the Zhao family." Zhao Shinan's voice was firm and could not be refuted at all. Old Mrs. Zhao was stunned.

Zhao Shinan chatted with the old lady a few more words and retreated. Looking at Zhao Shinan's back, Mrs. Zhao only felt a chill on her back, and said to her aunt: "Shi Nan is completely dizzy. ”

Aunt Ci sighed: "I don't know what kind of immortal art she has." Old lady, we'll have to think of a way. ”

Zhao Shinan returned to the room, Du Heng had already fallen asleep, his knees were numb, swollen and painful, and his tears wet the pillow. Zhao Shinan saw that the light in the inner room was dark, and he didn't disturb Du Heng anymore, and slept outside.

The next day, Du Heng limped and went to ask Mrs. Zhao for peace, but found that the old lady's gaze was only bored yesterday, but today she had a few more resentments. Du Heng didn't dare to say more, and respectfully said goodbye.

Mrs. Zhao didn't pay attention to her, and gave instructions to her subordinates, letting Du Heng stand there for more than an hour, and the people around her were quieter, before she slowly raised her hand: "Okay." ”

Only Mrs. Zhao and Du Heng were left in the room, and the old lady stared at Du Heng, her voice was very cold: "I know everything before you leave the pavilion." Du Heng's body trembled, and he raised his head a little helplessly. Old Mrs. Zhao frowned, she hated Du Heng's eyes very much: "Lower your head, don't look up without my orders in the future." ”

Du Heng bit his lip and lowered his head helplessly. The old lady continued: "You must restrain yourself in the future, and if I hear rumors again, I will not spare you." Huh?"

Du Heng's heart was in a mess, and he didn't know what to say, but he nodded numbly. Mrs. Zhao threw a book in front of Du Heng: "You don't have to do anything else in advance in the future, read this." ”

Du Heng trembled and picked it up, it was a book of "Yangzhou Painting Boat Records" written by Li Dou in the Qing Dynasty, this volume is about chaste martyrs, "Read!" Old Mrs. Zhao's voice was full of majesty.

Du Heng had no choice but to read: "Dongguan Street shoemaker Guo Zongfu, marry a wife Wang ----" This is the story of a married woman who committed suicide in shame after being patted on the shoulder by a man, Du Heng only felt that the more she thought about it, the more awkward she became, she was not a heartless person, she humiliated a woman with chastity, even if she was a broad-minded person, she couldn't stand this. Du Heng thought to the end, only to feel that his face was dripping blood, as if he had been slapped hard.

Old Mrs. Zhao was finally satisfied, looked at Du Heng and sneered: "Read one every morning in the future." ”

If it was said that when I went to see Mrs. Zhao Du Heng before, my scalp was numb, then from that day on, Du Heng's heart was dripping blood. She really understood what it meant to be "afraid".

Zhao Shinan came back for a few nights, Du Heng's house was dark, and on the sixth day, Zhao Shinan came back a little earlier, only seven o'clock, and it was black again. He couldn't help it, gently pushed open Du Heng's door, and walked to her bedside, the moonlight was very good that night, and Du Heng's outline was clearly illuminated, Zhao Shinan couldn't help but touch Du Heng's face, but it was a hand of tears.

"Heng'er, what's wrong?" Zhao Shinan's heart hurt slightly, and he helped Du Heng to sit up, "Uncomfortable? Heng'er, speak." ”

Zhao Shinan's voice was gentle and concerned, and there was a trace of anxiety, Du Heng had mixed feelings in his heart, and finally couldn't help but lie on Zhao Shinan's chest and cry bitterly.